I Went Crazy After Coming Back from the Mountains

There are five rules in Chenjiaao. You can't keep a dog for more than ten years, and you can't keep a cat for more than nine years. Don't go into the mountains at night. Must come by name. Fools don't live long. No one knows who made these rules. They only know that they are passed down from ancestors and something will happen if they are not followed. Three years ago, six young people went into the mountains to inspect the telephone lines. Only three came back, and they were all dumbfounded. Chen Qing is one of them. After he came back, he always chanted six words - "To the extreme of emptiness, stay quiet and sincere." No one has ever heard this sentence. But after three years of studying, he changed from a fool to a human being. Everyone in the village said he was fine. Only the black dog who had been raising him for nine years knew that he was not well. It squats under the locust tree every day, learning how to walk and how to breathe. When he calls his name and says "arrive", he calls out for him from his throat. This winter, it turns ten. According to the rules, it must die. But where the dog squatted, there was a line of marks on the dirt. Not dog paw prints. It's a person's fingerprint. Five, with the fingertips facing forward and the fingertips behind.